But I think, as my sister N suggested when we went through so much with G, that I am in denial all the time every day. I refuse to think anything BAD is happening. It's the foundation of my optimism. But sometimes something bad does happen and it pierces the surface of my delusion. Then I'm having a crisis of identity because I can't admit that anything is bad, there must be some positive way to look at this.

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This is one of those things where you choose whether you're going to treat it as a big deal or not, and you'll run into a wide range of responses. Even having lost a newborn baby, I have met people who minimized my loss relative to losing a child that you've actually gotten to know. Weird, huh? And I've known people who've never had children don't understand how it could be as bad as losing a parent or a sibling. So I always give people a pretty wide berth in their range of response, including non dramatic responses.